Tiflet OT4-2 (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.9° N, 6.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 11.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: rhenanus/varcus conodont zone, B Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by S. Gouwy, M. Benfrika, S. Helsen, P. Bultynck in 1995

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

• The collection is kept at the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium)

Primary reference: S. Gouwy, M. Benfrika, S. Helsen and P. Bultynck. 2000. Late Emsian to early Givetian Conodont succession in the Tiflet area (north-western Meseta, Central Morocco). Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique de Rabat Série Géologie & Géographie physique 20:1-10 [S. Gouwy/S. Gouwy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145437: authorized by Sofie Gouwy, entered by Sofie Gouwy on 03.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Neopanderodus sp. Ziegler and Lindström 1971 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont
Polygnathus varcus Stauffer 1940 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont
Icriodus brevis Stauffer 1940 conodont